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Aliens on MSX & Unreleased FDS Review

Jimmy Hapa just teamed up with Rewind Mike to post an excellent video about the game Aliens, based on the movie.  While most of the writers here enjoy game reviews, we don’t normally post articles about them unless it feels like a fit for RetroRGB content.  While this may or may not be a “fit”, […]

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ZX Spectrum ‘Next’ Kickstarter Raises Over A Million Dollars

The The ZX Spectrum Next has just launched it’s second kickstarter, which has already raised over a million dollars to make it happen!  After the success of the original Kickstarter, interest in the console grew and now the team is back with a second run, due to ship next year:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-2 The ZX Spectrum Next “Issue 2” […]

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Streaming Retro Games; EposVox Tutorial

EposVox has just posted the first video in an upcoming series about getting started streaming / capturing retro gaming content.  This video focuses on using the RetroTINK products and Adam demonstrates the original RetroTINK2x ‘Classic’.  As a note, all RetroTINK products (including the RAD2x) will work exactly the same…just don’t stream with scanlines turned on, […]

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Neo Geo MVS-X Announced

Update:  Pre-orders are open:  https://amzn.to/3nBVVSu A brand new Neo Geo MVS tabletop arcade console was just announced.  There’s a $500 model that comes with a stand which makes it close in size to a full-sized cabinet, while $450 gives you just the “tabletop” unit itself.  If you buy the stand afterwards, it’ll run you $100. It […]

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Weekly Roundup #214

Here’s this week’s roundup!  An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download:  https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-08-12_214.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute:  Please consider signing up as a supporter!  Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services:  https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal  /  https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb   T-Shirts:  https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment […]

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Swiss Updates – August 2020

The Swiss team has just published another few revisions of their GameCube software.  As always, they’ve continued to improve overall system stability and tweaks have been made to help slower SD cards perform better;  Some adapters were causing issues with games like Soulcalibur II, which is sensitive to interrupt latency.  Also, FMV stutter with SD Card […]